Nissan bluetooth and iPhone

The problem that I am having is that I can't use my bluetooth reliably with my iPhone 4. It worked fine with my iPhone 3G. What I get is that 50% of the times, I can't answer an incoming call. It simply does not pickup. When it does, it triggers a bug on the iOS that makes my ringer get stuck in the first seconds of the ringtone. The only way to get the call in from that point is to put the phone on speaker mode and revert it back. Once this happens, the ringer will be messed up until I reboot the phone and this issue has drained by battery twice already.

I already reset the phone 3 times, the last time as a new phone. The problem still prevails. Anybody else having this issue. I took my phone to the Apple Store Genius Bar, and they diagnose it as normal.

iPhone 4, iOS 4, Nissan Sentra 2008

Posted on Nov 3, 2010 8:13 AM

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Jan 21, 2013 8:05 PM in response to dajoy

I have a 11 Altima Cp w/Bose nav and the iphone 5..Every call that comes in, once you hit Answer, it hangs up on the caller..LISTEN>>> When a call comes in, the screen shows..Answer, Hold Call and Reject Call...I hit Hold Call and it answered fine without hanging up..Looks like the Hold Call is the Answer button, at least with the iPhone 5 and Nissan....

Jan 26, 2013 3:54 PM in response to Cristian Rodriguez

My wife has a 2011 Nissan Cross Cabriolet and when she bought an i5 phone, she could not answer my calls via bluetooth on the car's stereo system. Today I figured out a setting on the vehicle that allows one to receive calls via bluetooth with an i5 phone:


Here is the exact procedure: Select "Phone" on the console (by the dial). Select "Volume and Ringtone". Select "Automatic Hold"(this will remain the permanent selection even if you turn off the car and start it up much later, so you don’t have to do this but once). When the phone rings for an incoming call, you will be given the choices to "Answer", "Hang Up" or "Hold".


Select "Answer"---you can use the phone picture button on the steering wheel. I imagine you can use the touchscreen or dial to select and press to "Answer" or one of the other choices. The phone will work over the car stereo system. Now, you don’t have very long to “Answer”, but it does work!


Chris L.

Chattanooga

Jan 26, 2013 6:23 PM in response to Rachmaninoff Piano Player

Thanks. Tried it and thought it worked....did for two test tries, but since then same old thing happens. I have determine that when I "answer" via the car it does not hang-up but either goes to "hold" or else looses the bluetooth. If not driving I can get my iphone 5 and "reconnect" to the car but that is not the purpose of a bluetooth connection. Thanks though and I'm glad yours is working fine now.

Jan 28, 2013 5:14 PM in response to dajoy

I tried everything that's posted here including my solution that worked for one day. I called Apple today and they were not any help, just blaming Nissan. I have come to the conclusion it's the iPhone 5 and not Nissan, since every other iPhone works with my Altima. I will continue to contact Apple every day and complain until this is fixed. You buy the best phone and buy a great car loaded and the phone doesn't work right, VERY aggravating!

Jan 29, 2013 9:16 AM in response to dajoy

I can't speak for all Nissan models, but for my 2008 Sentra the problem was definitely Apple and its software. Every iphone with iOS 5.0 and later had problems. Anything I ran with iOS 4.X and earlier was fine. I don't know what they did, but it broke the compatibility and would not admit that was the cause of the problem. I've done enough testing to know otherwise. Every other non-apple phone I've tried with my car has worked perfectly, including my new Nokia Lumia 920. Windows phone, Android, RIM, whatever I threw at it was fine. Good luck to everyone. I hope for your sake Apple takes responsibility, works with Nissan, and fixes the product. The bluetooth problem is absolutely infuriating.

Jan 29, 2013 10:22 AM in response to Drostbro

I have a 2008 Nissan frontier and have the exact same experience as Dostbro. My iPhone 4 worked perfectly until iOS 5.0 came out. None of the iOS upgrades did anything to help. I tried many different phones and always the same thing would happen with an iPhone 4 That had an iOS 5.0 or higher. Apple and Nissan were both useless in figuring out the problem. A few months ago I bought an iPhone 5. Now all my problems are gone. I believe the problem with my vehicle is unique to iPhone 4 and IOS 5.x and up. I tried iPhone 4s and iPhone five in my truck and they both work fine. Every android-based phone I tried in my truck also worked fine. The difference here for you steelman Is that your vehicle is newer and you have the nav unit. I just had the factory Bluetooth with the regular Rockford Fosgate stereo.

Feb 21, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Cristian Rodriguez

I got my wife's nissan murano cabriolet working with the iphone5 (ios 6.1.2 altough i don't think the ios version matters). It was previously working fine with an iphone 3GS, but as we all know when we got the iphone5, calls would be answered but then the radio would come on.


I have the iphone5 named as a single word (that may matter). The key thing was to turn off the "automatic hold" on answer feature in the car (see Rachmaninoff Piano Player's post above - but do the opposite; turn off the "automatic hold" on answer)


My guess is that in upgrading the bluetooth profile in the iphone5 Apple actually got the " transfer to hold" feature to work. With the older bluetooth profile the iphone wouldn't transfer to hold, so we could answer it in the car.


Your mileage may vary, but the fix above got my wife of my back about getting the iphone5/ fixed.


good luck!

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